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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1918
Page
4
Miss Mona Yates of Blue and Bethel is noted with Lee Mitchell and family visiting Sunday with Frank Carns and family. The community shares Sunday gatherings including Charley Hane and wife at Will Wood's in Lynndale, and multiple Sunday visits among neighbors and relatives across various households.
In Diamond Mra Charles Elting and neighbors note sickness, with Christmas plans delayed due to flu. Local activity includes J F Gulick building a silo for corn, recent visits among families, and road work with new culverts north of the schoolhouse.
Mrs Inest Rex and son Jameg visited Cline Andrews Saturday afternoon. Vernie Ray and wife called on Fred Winter. Guy Andrews stayed with cousin Johnnie Brown near Jasper. Virgil Dinwiddie moving near Lamar. Rene Haile visited Beulah Stansberry Wednesday. Willie Winter spent Sunday with cousin Geo Winter. Carne visited Carthage Joplin and Pittsburg last week. Parker and Lois Andrews with Walter Haile. Harrison Walix and wife visited Jack Stansberry Sunday. Mrs Ernest Rex called on Mrs Fred Winter Wednesday. Tom Wardlow family at Wm Lyman's Sunday. Mrs 8 M Rogers returned to Carthage Monday. Tiona Redmond spent Sunday with home folks. Nelle Cook and pupils of Farmers Union School prepping Christmas program Sunday evening.
A Sunday night recollection recounts a couple sharing a midnight walk after a tap at the door. The date’s noted as the first day of December. The pair part, the lamp goes out, and the woman dreams of him while waking with a broken heart and loss of appetite, lamenting unreciprocated love from a person nicknamed Old Fogy.
An aphoristic note extols brave contention for a "good causa" as noble, worth suffering for, praising perseverance and heroic resolve in pursuit of virtue.
Community social as residents including Mra Myrra Comumn Mrs Emery Teeter and families gather with Mra Myrtle Coiner and Grace Sellars. Local observations include car theft discovery of a Buick found abandoned in a stream near Carthage and police involvement.
Mrs Kerney spent Monday afternoon with Mrs Nellie Harris, Mrs Nellie Harris, Mrs John Boucher and daughter Nadine, and Oscar.
Fankin and wife visited Carthage on Wednesday. Agnes Gresham spent Tuesday afternoon with May Sanford and Nadine Houcher. Mrs Will McClintock and Mrs Joy Kerney visited with Mrs Charley McClintock. Walter McConnell and son from Joplin stayed with Ernest McConnell family last week. Maxine McClintock has influenza and stays with grandparents Will and wife. Fern Harvey bruised herself Thursday and is recovering. Leota and Edna McClintock ill with influenza. Ernest McConnell family visited Robert Smith's Sunday. Oscar Faskin and wife visited John Sunderland family Sunday. Kenny Miller and family and others visited Will McClintock's Sunday.
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